Laura Linney Quotes
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.
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I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to hate them. That's what keeps people drawn to their television sets.
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Rob Gronkowski cost me the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I haven't forgot that.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
